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Top Names Around the World

　　This week’s news includes names celebrating life, a name that started as a joke, and what’s hot on the East and West Coasts and around the world. 　　Name stories: rushing into lifeDo you know any names that started as a joke? Tanya Sweeney, an Irish journalist, was born early and...

Jan 7, 2025

Scottish Baby Names: Announcements from Aberdeen

Starbaby and Other Name News of the Week

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20 Unique Baby Names That Deserve More Love

Baby Names in the News: Solstice, Atom & Mickey Latest Baby Name News from Around the Globe Celebrity Baby Names: 10 years of starbabies 12 Best Golden Globe Nominee Names What names are you shocked to find so low on the list? Most Popular Names 2018 10th Anniversary: Nameberry Goes Global! Baby Name News This Week

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New Top Baby Names in England and Wales

Jan 7, 2025

　　By Eleanor Nickerson, British Baby Names 　　Today, the top baby names for England and Wales in 2017 have been released by the Office of National Statistics (yes, we get ours pretty late on, sadly). 　　And once again Oliver was top for English name for boys, for the fifth year, and Olivia remained...

Let’s Put Together Our Own Top 100!

Jan 7, 2025

　　Let’s Put Together An Alternative Top 100! 　　Nameberry visitors love lesser-used baby names, as our constantly updated “Most Popular” lists show. Atticus (US rank #350) is currently our most-searched boys’ name, while Rumi (unranked), Maia (#487) and Amara (#208) are all in the Nameberry girls’ Top 20. 　　Unique baby namers...

How Important to You is a Name’s Distinctiveness?

Jan 7, 2025

　　We all know that the official popularity rankings don’t tell us everything there is to know about how popular our favorite baby names really are… 　　First, there’s regional variation: a cursory glance at the state-by-state popularity charts will tell you that parents in Oregon who are looking for an uncommon...

Newsiest Names this Week: Eamon, Fabian and Florian

Jan 7, 2025

　　This week’s news includes family dynamics – from involving the in-laws to picking a surname – plus a baby named after a fancy dress costume, and what’s hot in Austria. 　　In-law involvement: yea or nay?Announcing a baby’s name before it’s born can be a tricky decision – especially if family...

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Popular Girls Names: Their ups and downs

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Unisex Baby Names: How To Achieve Baby Name Equality

Jan 7, 2025

　　Unisex baby names, meaning those that are used for both boys and girls, are not always that equal. Some of the most popular are heavily weighted toward one gender or the other: Emerson is 61 percent girls and 39 percent boys, for instance, while Rowan is the other way around....

Princess Names: Princesses by Marriage (Hi, Kate!)

Jan 7, 2025

　　Princess names are a subject of fascination for us, one we last covered by detailing all the royal names of the next generation of little princesses, from Aiko to Eleonore. 　　Now, in honor of the newest princess by marriage, Catherine of Wales, we look at the names of women who,...

Word Names: A Dozen of the Best for Girls

Jan 7, 2025

　　The lovely Lemon, one of nameberry’s greatest treasures, guest blogs on her favorite word names. 　　I’d venture to say that many of the frequent posters on the Nameberry message boards consider themselves equipped with a “name-sense” of sorts, but for me it’s more of a “word-sense,” really. After all, at...

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Hanukkah Baby Names: Sweet-Spot Biblical Boy Names

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Rule-Breaking Baby Names

Jan 7, 2025

　　They have a well-established formula for naming a son, but this time nothing feels quite right. Is there something they’ve overlooked? Or is it time to break the rules? 　　Rachel writes: 　　We are expecting our third child and I am stumped on a name if it’s a boy. Our two...

Boy Baby Names: Can Remy Be Saved?

Jan 7, 2025

　　They have the perfect name for their next child – if they can resolve spelling and pronunciation challenges. Can it be done, or should they move on to another choice? 　　Marie writes: 　　My husband’s family has a great name that has been passed down (to boys only so far) for...

Boy Names: The new traditionals

Jan 7, 2025

　　He says “strong traditional.” She says “unique.” Where’s the middle ground for naming a son? 　　Kelly writes: 　　My husband and I can’t agree on boy names. Our daughters are Mischa and Nova. He wants a “strong traditional” boy name, but I like unique and I don’t think any traditional names...

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Unisex Names That Switched From Boy to Girl

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Gender-Bending Baby Names

Jan 7, 2025

　　Gender-bending baby names cross gender boundaries. Some of them are more popular for boys, others for girls, and some are so rare they could go either way. See what you think – are these names more boy or girl to you? 　　Arlo 　　Actor Theo Rossi and his wife chose a...

Nonbinary Names Achieve Gender Parity

Jan 7, 2025

　　Nonbinary names are balanced in the proportion of girls to boys who receive the name in a given year. At Nameberry, we define this as no less than 35 percent, but no more than 65 percent of a single sex. Compare that to unisex names, which are given to the...

Surprisingly International Baby Names

Jan 7, 2025

　　Say “international baby names” — and what springs to mind? 　　Hands up if you said Anna or Adam! It’s true: there are plenty of popular names that feature near the top of the baby name charts in multiple countries. 　　But if your tastes lean towards more uncommon choices, finding a...

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The Top Names We're Watching for 2024

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Spanish Nature Names Soar Beyond Luna

Jan 7, 2025

　　While for the most part, 2022's Top 10 names looks a whole lot similar to the year before, there was one significant change — the debut of the luminous Luna. The Spanish word for moon has been shooting up the charts after having entered the Top 1000 in 2003, and...

Popular Names Your Mom Never Heard Of

Jan 7, 2025

　　The biggest critic of parents’ baby name choice? Yup, that would be Grandma! 　　According to a 2016 survey, almost half of new parents who received negative comments about their newborn’s name said that they came from their own mom. 　　Whether you’re surprised or totally unsurprised by that statistic – no...

Quirky Favorite Baby Names in 10 Top Cities

Jan 7, 2025

　　New York baby namers love sleek, streamlined girl names like Rose and Claire, while Dallas favorites like Willa and Evangeline bring a touch of Southern charm. 　　Scottish namers are drawn to rugged boy names with a local flavor, such as Innes and Struan. And in Auckland, New Zealand, you'll find...

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Literary Baby Names in the News

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Australia’s Fastest Rising Top 100 Names

Jan 7, 2025

　　By Anna Otto, Waltzing More than Matilda 　　These are names which rose the fastest in Australia in 2014, calculated not only by overall national position, but by the number of states in which the name had significant gains. It also compares their progress in Australia with that in the US,...

Occupational Baby Names: A journalist named Jonah? An accountant named Adele?

Jan 7, 2025

　　By Mark Edmond 　　What do August, Hannah, and Jules have in common? It turns out that people with those names are more likely than others to be playwrights. 　　How about Casey, Vincent, and Roy? They’re more apt to be plumbers. 　　At least that’s what our research at Verdant Labs shows. ...